"Letting-Go" Lessons


      
Sometimes it seems like the process of
      letting my children go has taken forever. It is so, so hard -
      and harder still for homeschoolers. I would not have made it
      this far without the Lord's help. Do these things while you have
      opportunity.

      
1. Redeem the time. Never neglect
      study nor training. As sure as the sun sets each day, the night
      will come when your teaching will be over.

      
2. Pray fervently. Start when
      your children are young if possible. Your job is to pray the
      way ahead of them. It will be good.

      
3. Broaden your territory. Do
      not restrict your ministry to only your children. By expanding
      your borders when they are young, you will not only show a good
      example of Christian service to them, you will also be able to
      easily walk into more ministry when your mother-ministry is finished.

      
4. Do not isolate yourself from the
      family of God. If you do, when your children leave, you might
      be painfully alone.

      
5. Pray that God will prepare godly
      male teachers for your sons. Older sons are naturally more
      receptive to a man's teaching and modeling. Pray especially for
      their father and allow your husband to lead early on.

      
6. Make sure it is God's timing before
      letting go. Keep a firm hold on your children until God says
      let go. Listen to Him not others.

      
7. Jesus has a "mother-heart."
      Men hated him, spat on him, and abused him terribly. He loved
      so much, he overlooked it all and said, "Father forgive
      them." Keep loving your children no matter what they do.
      God can turn it around.

      
8. Pray through. Be willing to
      be poured out for your children and others. Travail in prayer.
      Pray through until you can lay your burden down, knowing that
      Mighty God has taken it up.

      
9. In everything give thanks. Because
      He knows what he is doing whether we see it or not and He doeth
      all things WELL!

      
Scriptural Prayer for Our
      Children


      
We recognize the inherent Power of the
      Word of God and agree with God in His Word:

      

        
All my children are taught of the Lord
        and great is their peace. Is. 54:13
        
I will refrain my voice from weeping,
        and my eyes from tears: for my work shall be rewarded, and my
        children shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there
        is hope in my end, that my children shall come again to their
        own border. Jer. 31:16, 17
        
I train up my children in the way they
        should go and they do not depart from it. Prov. 22:6
        
God is preserving my children from this
        evil generation forever - preserving them wherever they may go,
        preserving them from bad relationships, preserving them from
        addictions, preserving them from any and all things that the
        devil could hope for them. Ps. 32:7 and others.

        
      

      
We thank you Lord for your Word that
      will not return void but will accomplish all these good things
      for us and our children.

      
In Jesus' name, Amen

      
 

      
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